The Swan Collection
Exquisite gifts for relationships that matter.
The Swan Collection
Exquisite gifts for relationships that matter.
Greeting Cards
Do you postpone sharing a sensitive message or gratitude with someone you care about?
You’ve probably been waiting for the right moment, haven’t you? As long as you hold back your words of appreciation, gratitude, care, empathy, compassion, solace, grief or joy, the people you care about will not receive them as your personal gift – an exquisite gift, that can meet their need for being seen and mattering.
If instead you choose to no longer wait, sharing your words can lead to more connection between the two of you, and can bring both of you inner peace and joy in your hearts. Isn’t right now a wonderful time for you both to experience that?
The Greetings Cards of The Swan Collection are designed to make it easy to express, share your message, and can even work as conversation starters with the receiver of your cards.
Express your unspoken words…
- to people you care about and with whom you like to strengthen your relationship by letting them know they matter to you,
- to people you want to say ‘thank you’ to because of something they did that contributed to your growth or well-being,
- to loved ones who are in the last phase of their life,
- to loved ones with whom communicating will become difficult in the future due to illnesses.
Feeling unsure how to formulate your messages?
When you order your set of Greeting Cards of The Swan Collection, you also get access to an online program with lots of inspiration and you receive a printable journal to help you reflect on your relationship and formulate your messages.
What do you receive?
15 + 1 Folded Greeting Cards
15 writing prompts
One prompt for each card, to help you reflect on your relationship.
15 different greeting cards
to send to the persons you like to express your appreciation and gratitude to.
15 white envelopes
so you can post the card immediately after you’ve written your message.
1 folded card to keep for yourself the last card with all the visuals of The Swan Collection is yours to keep.
Access to the Reflection Program with a Printable Journal
When you order your card sets, you also get access to an online Reflection Program with lots of inspiration, guidance and a printable journal to help you reflect on your relationship and to formulate your messages.
Note: The needs on the front of the card appear in your chosen language.
The Reflection Program, the Journal and Feelings & Needs Lists are in English and Dutch.
Foundation for understanding the process of self-empathy and for using the Reflection Process in your journal.
15 Writing Prompts, Guidance & Inspiration for each need to help you expand your perspective and reflect on each specific card.
A printable Reflection Journal to reflect on all the needs, which together creates your own collection of valuable insights and requests.
Feelings & Needs Lists to help you identify and name feelings and needs, and empathize with yourself and others.
Céline Ottria
France
“I started The Swan Collection Program, which I find incredible! So much information, tips,
inspiration… I feel impressed and touched by the amount of work I can sense behind all that, and it gives me trust that generosity and the will to contribute with high quality is a value shared by many people.
It brings me joy and hope, which these days is a precious thing to feel. Thank you.”
Diana Cosma
Romania
“Hi Mireille, just wanted to let you know the writing prompts are absolutely fantastic and insightful!
The cards arrived and they look even more beautiful in person! I look forward writing on them when I’m ready! Thank you so much for the sweet card you included.
I bought the cards because I think we often wait too long to express to others what we appreciate about them. Sometimes the end comes suddenly, and other times when the end is approaching the person no longer has the ability to read or understand what I wrote, and I just think it’s wonderful to tell one another these things while we’re still here and actively engaging in a relationship. Your cards remind me of my Nonviolent Communication practice and they’re also really beautiful. A long time ago I wrote little notes for loved ones about what I appreciated about them, but I think with your cards that could be more focused on what really matters and a more beautiful gift.”
Available in English, Dutch, French and Slovene
Choose the language closest to the heart of the person you will be sending all your cards to.
Note: The needs on the front of the card appear in your chosen language.
The Reflection Program, the Journal and Feelings & Needs Lists are in English and Dutch.
Available in English, Dutch, French and Slovene
Choose the language closest to the heart of the person you will be sending all your cards to.
Note: The needs on the front of the card appear in your chosen language.
The Reflection Program, the Journal and Feelings & Needs Lists are in English and Dutch.
Xavier Jurquet
France
“Thanks a lot for your swan cards. I used them as a personal gift to 14 participants in a Nonviolent Communication Workshop. My idea was to invite them to choose one need, out fourteen which I had written on paper, at the beginning of the day one. I asked them to experiment to connect to the idea of this need being fulfilled during the next two days. At the end of the two days, I gave them the swan card with their personal name on the envelop, and asked them about their experience with this need during the past two days. Did they manage to stay connected to it? And what other feedback did they have?
I liked listening to people enjoying sharing what they felt, focusing on one particular need during two days… This was my pleasure to celebrate your beautiful cards!”
How to use of the Greeting Cards of The Swan Collection
Choose the card you want to send
Each card represents a universal human need that has and hasn’t been met in your relationship.
Use the Journal offered in the Reflect and journaling prompts
You are guided in reflecting on your relationship and how your person contributed to your life and well-being.
Write your message inside the card
Choose which part of your reflection contributes to experiencing inner peace, harmony and connection.
Mail the card
Yes, your gift of empathy, solace, love, mourning and gratitude arrives by post so they can hold your gift in their hands.
Repeat the previous steps for all 15 cards
Or as many cards you like to send.
Give to yourself
Set of Greeting Cards
with Access Empathic Reflection Program
Bring a smile to the faces of your partner, children, family members, friends, colleagues, neighbours and anyone else. Send a card with an expression of your appreciation and gratitude for how their action and presence in your life contribute to your growth and wellbeing.
Give to a friend
€59,-
VAT 0% for company orders / VAT exemption for private orders and orders outside of the EU.
Order in your desired language …
The needs on the front of the cards appear in your chosen language.
The Reflection Program, Journal and Feelings and Needs Lists are in English and Dutch.
Roxy Manning
United States of America
“The imagery on Mireille’s swan cards capture the essence of each need they depict. I’ve written several notes to loved ones on these cards. Each time, the act of looking at each image and need invites me into a deep reflection on my relationships and what the person who will receive the card means to me. And I’ve heard from each person how deeply touched they were by the depth of expression the cards elicit. The swan cards are a beautiful support for self-connection and heartfelt expression.”
How did The Swan Collection come into existence?
When I knew my mother was going to die, I felt and urgency to still honestly express and share my unspoken words of appreciation, mourning, love and compassion. I wanted her to be know with how she affected me and my well-being.
Laying in her hospice bed, a smile appeared on my mom’s face when she said: ‘I did not expect this! They are beautiful! Keep drawing!’
With gratitude for Hospice ‘De Liefde’ in Rotterdam …
… for all their care, love, attention, listening and guidance.
And with special appreciation for the 40 volunteers working there, for dedicating their time to supporting the residents to live in a peaceful and loving home.
Meet the Creator
Visual Facilitator & Graphic Designer | Mireille van Bremen works as a bridge between complex ideas and audiences, using visual tools to clarify, present, and interpret information. Through graphic recording of discussions and visual facilitation of processes, Mireille supports getting all stakeholders to speak one voice, making it possible to create a joint vision of the future that all stakeholders are committed to.
The Visual Mediator
Mireille Annette van Bremen s.p.
Žlebej 1a
8000 Novo mesto, Slovenia
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